People in prison perform essential work, but the 13th Amendment prevents them from being treated with dignity.
Tag: prison industrial complex
Posted inNews & Politics
A literary mission
Chicago Books to Women in Prison partners with Women & Children First to get books behind bars.
Posted inOn Prisons
Shooting ourselves in the foot
Harsh penalties for gun crimes don’t make communities safer.
Posted inArts & Culture
Building an opera in the waiting room
Editor’s note: Coco Picard spoke to Chicago artist and School of the Art Institute of Chicago assistant professor Anna Martine Whitehead in early June. The comic above captures moments of their conversation. Text from the comic is transcribed here to ease readability. Performance maker Anna Martine Whitehead has been writing and developing FORCE! An Opera […]
Posted inArts & Culture
‘Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone’
Author, organizer, and educator Mariame Kaba shows that collective action can be powerful only with community, and provides the next generation of changemakers with critical lessons on abolition and organizing in her new book.
Posted inArts & Culture
Lit recs to dismantle violence, both the personal and systemic
The current book obsessions of Reader staff writer Maya Dukmasova and activist Mariame Kaba.
Posted inBlogs
A Q&A with filmmaker Jamal Joseph on Chapter & Verse and the prison industrial complex
Joseph’s first feature is a personal and multifaceted look at America’s broken prison system.
Posted inNews & Politics
Abolish the police? Organizers say it’s less crazy than it sounds.
Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.